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Support I Killed my Mother / It Wasn’t my Fault
This is a play for and by young wayward women, inquisitive and conscious of their privilege in society, people addicted to their phones, and anyone who finds themselves caught between the slippery planes of the online portal between their own reality and the world beyond.
We take frivolity seriously.
About the Play
For this Girl of 25, life with Herself is continually turbulent. This morning is particularly overwhelming; She is assaulted by self-doubt, unemployment, too much social media, and her mother. Still, She must brave the mundanity and frivolousness of urban girlhood, all the while looking for someone to blame. This is the story of an ordinary day in Her life.
This story is presented to the audience in a play that follows Her uninterrupted train-of-thought, from waking to sleeping, as She navigates the real world and the digital worlds. It is an anti-chick-flick-esque reckoning between a vicious mother and a vapid daughter - a coming of age story.
This is a play for and by young wayward women, inquisitive and conscious of their privilege in society, people addicted to their phones, and anyone who finds themselves caught between the slippery planes of the online portal between their own reality and the world beyond.
We take frivolity seriously.
Is it frivolous to be active on social media? Is it silly to dress up and take pictures of yourself? Is it cringe to relate more strongly to memes than literature? Is it rich-people-privilege if you don’t want to work or have a career? Is it shameful to talk back to your parents? Is it slutty to desire? Is it un-feminist to not help your mother around the house? Is it lazy to wake up late everyday? Is it desperation when you want to be invited to a party? Is it a mental illness when you just don’t like yourself? And is it absolutely crazy to have so many thoughts all the time, all at once?
Or is it just everyday life for countless young women?
Or is it just everyday life for countless young women?
This story is presented to the audience in a play that follows Her uninterrupted train-of-thought, from waking to sleeping, as She navigates the real world and the digital worlds. It is an anti-chick-flick-esque reckoning between a vicious mother and a vapid daughter - a coming of age story.
The Journey of IKMM
The first draft of IKMM was written in 2020 at Indian Ensemble’s First Draft: Ideas Lab. It has since weathered the pandemic pause, survived its term as a saved draft on a desktop, been rewritten multiple times, and is now ready to see the light of day. We have received a seed grant of 1 lakh from the Drama School Mumbai that has allowed us to take this show on the floor. Given the reality of the funding landscape of the arts, KathaSiyah has in the past relied on its community to support our new projects. While this seed money takes care of our actors’ fees and venue costs, it doesn’t take us all the way. In a play that exists in the world of tech and digitality, we need additional financial resources to face the high and often prohibitive costs of tech, running production costs, publicity, and scenography. More importantly, it will allow us to pay the artists and collaborators who are contributing their time, energy and creative input to this show.
About the Creators
KathaSiyah is a multilingual, feminist, performance collective centered around
ethics of care and a deliberate awareness of our own position in relation to the work we make. KathaSiyah is a place to collaborate, play and develop artistic responses to hopes, fears, and questions we have about the world we live in, as well as our relationship to it. KS responds to the world it sees, challenges itself, moulds itself to the times we live in, and embraces change as it grows. We are a collective of young artists that support our peers in the creation of new work. We are home to artists who want to breathe life to their first scripts and take their work to the stage, and provide support in the resources that we have - time, people and creativity.
IKMM is KathaSiyah’s first project in Mumbai, helmed by Mallika Shah. Mallika is an actor, playwright, and theatre-maker based out of Mumbai. She believes theatre to be a versatile, adventurous, and holistic vehicle of thought through which to discover worlds in detail. Her interests lie in the mundane, in rebellion, pop and youth culture, love, and just about everything else.
She has trained at the Drama School Mumbai, builds scaffolding around the theatre ecosystem at Bhasha Centre, works as an educator with tafreehwale at various schools, and explores different facets of theatre-making with a range of collaborators.
The first draft of IKMM was written in 2020 at Indian Ensemble’s First Draft: Ideas Lab. It has since weathered the pandemic pause, survived its term as a saved draft on a desktop, been rewritten multiple times, and is now ready to see the light of day. We have received a seed grant of 1 lakh from the Drama School Mumbai that has allowed us to take this show on the floor. Given the reality of the funding landscape of the arts, KathaSiyah has in the past relied on its community to support our new projects. While this seed money takes care of our actors’ fees and venue costs, it doesn’t take us all the way. In a play that exists in the world of tech and digitality, we need additional financial resources to face the high and often prohibitive costs of tech, running production costs, publicity, and scenography. More importantly, it will allow us to pay the artists and collaborators who are contributing their time, energy and creative input to this show.
About the Creators
KathaSiyah is a multilingual, feminist, performance collective centered around
ethics of care and a deliberate awareness of our own position in relation to the work we make. KathaSiyah is a place to collaborate, play and develop artistic responses to hopes, fears, and questions we have about the world we live in, as well as our relationship to it. KS responds to the world it sees, challenges itself, moulds itself to the times we live in, and embraces change as it grows. We are a collective of young artists that support our peers in the creation of new work. We are home to artists who want to breathe life to their first scripts and take their work to the stage, and provide support in the resources that we have - time, people and creativity.
IKMM is KathaSiyah’s first project in Mumbai, helmed by Mallika Shah. Mallika is an actor, playwright, and theatre-maker based out of Mumbai. She believes theatre to be a versatile, adventurous, and holistic vehicle of thought through which to discover worlds in detail. Her interests lie in the mundane, in rebellion, pop and youth culture, love, and just about everything else.
She has trained at the Drama School Mumbai, builds scaffolding around the theatre ecosystem at Bhasha Centre, works as an educator with tafreehwale at various schools, and explores different facets of theatre-making with a range of collaborators.
